Dark Knight Megathread

[Lyth]

Any time I've seen a gaming company be anything less than grateful for receiving feedback and humble about their achievements, it usually starts trending downhill fairly soon after. A lot of it comes down to pride, the belief that you know what's best of players, and a sense that the competition is inferior. I hope that they can stay grounded and remember their roots. They don't have to keep apologizing for 1.0, but if it helps them remember, perhaps it's not a bad ritual.

[Satarn]

They don't have to keep apologizing for 1.0, but if it helps them remember, perhaps it's not a bad ritual.

The problem with "remembering 1.0" is that I don't think that's what anyone actually remembers. Look at any article covering FFXIV, look at many forum posts referring to the past - it's never "oh man, 1.0 was crap, they better not repeat that mentality again". It's always "oh man, the way Yoshi P and the team saved FFXIV with ARR was so epic! what an amazing guy! he cares so much! the dev team is so much better than in other mmos!". People don't remember 1.0 as a cautionary tale, they just remember ARR as SE's greatest epic - and that is what they keep reminding the devs about.

I'm honestly pretty sick of it. ARR was 9 years ago and sure, it was a great rebirth, but that doesn't excuse mistakes done afterwards and certainly does not mean the devs are infallible or any less prone to regular corporate apathy than their competitors. They should be judged for what they do now - good and bad - not for something they did nearly a decade ago.